British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed hundreds of climate activists and trade unionists in Paris on Monday at an event organized by Trade Unions for Energy Democracy.
"We've taken the responsibility on ourselves to do something here and now–to stop the destruction of the world's environment, to bring people together to prevent that happening, and above all, to bring people together not through fear, but through hope, through imagination, through optimism," Corbyn said. "Unleash the optimism, unleash the imagination, unleash the hope. That is the way forward."
Ta'Kaiya Blaney is a 14-year-old activist, singer and actress from the Tla'amin First Nation, north of Vancouver, Canada. On Saturday, she sang her song "Turn the World Around" at the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature in Paris, France. "I was told by a Haida elder that to turn the world around, you have to turn it upside down," Blaney told Democracy Now! after her performance.
Youth leaders from many of the countries most at risk to climate change are at COP21 demanding an ambitious goal in the Paris Agreement: 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Democracy Now!'s Carla Wills and Juan Carlos Dávila spoke to participants of an action led by indigenous youth demanding that developed countries commence an immediate phase-out of fossil fuels and provide finance and technology to aid developing nations.
